Audible Infrastructures reveals the material, environmental, and economic conditions that underlie the production and consumption of music. In showing how central natural resources, power grids, and transportation are to music, this book boldly reshapes how we understand musical cultures and their place in society.
Audible Infrastructures primes us to listen for music's resonances far beyond the specific moment and site of audition. This powerful collection articulates how each stream on Spotify, each strum of the guitar, each flip of the LP, each voice raised in protest is networked across time and space to the forests, mines, plantations, power plants, and dumping grounds where music is made material.